Container for talking-machine records



C. A. KIMMEL.

CONTAINER FOR TALKING MACHINE RECORDS; APPLICATION man sEPT.2.1919.

/mrlas mel. v

To all fw hom t may concern:

UNITED STATES:

PATENT oFFlca'.

coNrAlINEE EoE'TALmNG-MAcHiNE EEcoED's.

Specification of Letters Patient.v y

. Patented May 3,1921.

Application' med september 2, 1919..-` srmnaemnoa Be it known that I, CHARLES A. KIMMEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Containers for Talking-Machine Records, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to -the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter particularly described and distinctly claimed.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved container or cabinet for holding and protecting and preserving the records used upon talking-machines of the disk type; whereby each record-disk (when riot in use) will be separately supported at its edge only in a vertical osition within a strong protecting casin rom which it may be quickly selected an removed when it is to be played or otherwise used.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front of a cabinet or container constructed in accordance with my invention, parts of the front being broken away, to exhibit the internal arrangement.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same container, the section being taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a detail section, taken on the line 3 3 of Fig- 2, but with the parts enlarged, to more clearly show the construction.

In the present illustration of my invention, the container or case is shown in an ornamental form, but I do not limit myself to the form shown, as it is obvious that the external form of the container may be of any other desired shape, such as rectangular and devoid of all ornamentation; whereby the user or owner may stack a number of retainers, one on top of another, to economize in space.

A square container is thebest for shipping and storing, for the reasons above stated.

Referring to the details shown in the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the external wall of the container, which is made of wood or other suitable material, and which is substantially rectangular in form, except that its front upper longitudinal corner isirounded oil", and provid-ed with a curved cover or lid 2.

Said lid or cover 2 is provided with suit- I able hinges 3, and a lock or other fasteningdevice 4, whereby access to the interior of the container may be had, in placing or removing the records, or in fastening them therein.

A very important part of my invention is ,the internal arrangement of thev container the same consisting of a corrugated sheet of 'metal, paper, or other suitable material, that is bent or curved to a U-shape in cross-sectionand provided with a series of parallel hollow corrugations 5 separated by curved spaces 6, in which the edges of the records 7 are placed.

By this construction the edges only of the records 7 are used to support the records, and the adjacent records are always separated by a space equal to the width of the intervening corrugation 5; thereby preventing the adjacent records from being injured by rubbing together, or by accidental contact with any article which might injure the playing faces of the records.

Said U-shaped corrugated holder is supported within the casing or external walls 1 by having its edges and ends flanged and secured by nails (or in any common manner) to the walls of U-shaped recesses formed in vertical frame-plates 8, one of which is preferably located'at each end of the container, and of which others may be distributed at distances along the length of the said corrugated holder, if it be of any, considerable length.

The operation of my invention will be readily apparent from the above description, it only being necessary to make the additional remark that by reason of the peculiar construction of the U-shaped recordholder, with its corrugations 5, extending only partially around the peripheries of the records 7, a space is thereby formed in said holder, near its upper front portion, through which the records may be quickly inserted and withdrawn, by merely grasping said records by their edges, which normally project n into the open space just referred to, in convenient position.

By supporting the records 7 upon their edges, in a vertlcal position, and separated from each other, as above described, the rec- A container for talking-machine records;

comprising a corrugated sheet of material,` that is bent to a U -shape in cross-section, to

`provide hollow supporting Walls that .extend only `partially around 'the edges of the records; vertical frame-plates having U-shap'ed l, recesses formed in them, and in which the said corrugated sheet is seated; and means for fastening said corrugated sheet in said U-s'haped recesses of said frame-plates.

Intestimony whereof-Lhavegsigned my 15 name to this specification in the presence of 4two subscribngrvwitnesses.

, lCHAltLES. A. KIMMEL. Witnesses:

IDA PHILLrPs, CHAS. W. L. Klum affairN,` 'a 

